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With more and more children interested in participating in sports, a new specialty in medicine called primary care sports medicine, now focuses on keeping these athletes healthy. Our sports medicine clinic now offers immediate counseling and treatment in the following areas:
Overuse Injuries
Children, because of their open growth plates and apophysis, have risks of developing different overuse injuries then adults. A pediatric sports medicine specialist can quickly identify and help to prevent these injuries. Some overuse injuries in children include os good-schlatter (better known as jumper’s knee), Sever’s disease (injury to the growth plate in the heel), and Little League Elbow (inflammation of the inside of the elbow).
The Female Athlete
Increased exercise loads, stress, and pressures to maintain an “ideal body type-thin or prepubescent” can result in what is known as the female athlete triad. The female athlete triad includes disordered eating, amenorrhea (absence of periods at sufficient intervals >7 year), and osteoporosis. The goal in treatment for the female athleteis to prevent osteoporosis, stress fractures and possible infertility as an adult. This goal is best met by maintaining ideal body weight.
Nutritional Supplements
Our clinic can provide education and or counseling on
the risks and benefits of using nutritional supplements. Popular supplements today include creatine (most
prevalent), androstenedione, glucosamine, chondroitin,
oral rehydration beverages (Powerade, Gatorade), and amino acid supplements.
Respiratory Problems in Athletes
Two disease processes can lead to shortness of breath, chest tightness, or cough with exercise. They include exercise-induced asthma and vocal cord dysfunction. If improperly diagnosed, impairment of performance can result. Although the symptoms are similar, the treatment is quite different for each disease entity. Our clinic can help with the diagnosis and treatment of each of these problems.
If you have any questions regarding any of these topics or how to insure your child’s safe participation in sports, please contact us at 410.337.7900.
Teri Metcalf McCambridge, M.D. Primary Care Sports Medicine
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
I’d like to welcome to our practice Teri Metcalf McCambridge, M.D., a board-certified pediatrician, who is also fellowship-trained in sports medicine. The addition of Dr. McCambridge expands the scope of our sports medicine practice, allowing us to offer this important specialty to the growing primary care sports medicine patient population.
Dr. McCambridge (nee Metcalf) comes to us following a one-year fellowship in adolescent and sports medicine at the University of Wisconsin. Her pediatric
residency training was completed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, following graduation from
the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. For her undergraduate degree, she attended Ohio State University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Zoology with a minor in nutrition, graduating Summa cum Laude with honors in the liberal arts and elected into Phi Beta Kappa.
Dr. McCambridge’s interests include the prevention and treatment of adolescent athlete overuse injuries, the female athlete triad, and strength training and nutrition in young athletes.
She has been named the team physician for the Rebounders Gymnastics Academy, Friends School and the College of Notre Dame.
In addition to seeing primary care sports medicine patients, Dr. McCambridge will be heading up our daily Sports Injuries Clinic at our office on Bellona Avenue, Monday through Friday from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. McCambridge to our staff and the Baltimore community.
Sincerely,
Kenneth C. Gertsen, M.D.
President, Orthopaedic Associates